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We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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